"dan" wrote in message
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Dave wrote in message
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Plaistow and Theydon Bois catch out quite a few of the locals - let
alone tourists.

[raises hand] "so please, sir, will you enlighten an ignorant
foreigner (well, a northerner)"

I have heard that Plaistow is Plaaahstoe, but what about Theydon?
Theydon Bwah? Thaydon Boys???????

Thaydon Boys. Like Chesham Bois (Chesh-um Boys) which is a place (not a tube
station) near Chesham in Bucks. I think the pronunciation is a sort of
inverted snobbery: "now that the plebs have realised that Bois is a French
word and should be pronounced Bwah, we're going to pronounce it Boys just to
catch them out"!